Extraordinary eighth session of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of the eleventh convocation

USSR. Moscow. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Georgy Petrovich Razumovsky (from left to right, first row), member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov, member Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Lev Nikolaevich Zaikov, Minister of Defense of the USSR Dmitry Timofeevich Yazov (from left to right in the second row), member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee for Economics Nikolai Nikitovich Slyunkov and First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the USSR Yuri Dmitrievich Maslyukov (left right in the third row) during a meeting of the extraordinary eighth session of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of the eleventh convocation in the meeting hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Yuri Lizunov, Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS